Question Directed to the: Premier representing the Minister for Regional Development
Question Directed to: Hon A. MacTiernan
(2) It has never been the practice of Government to release the names of unsuccessful applicants. I table the details of successful applications.
| Applicant Business | Application Project | Project Description | RDC | Amount Granted | Amount Acquitted | Project Commenced |
| North West Short Stay Pty Ltd | Ningaloo Commercial Laundry | To develop and fit out a commercial laundry in Exmouth. Providing a laundry service to the wider Gascoyne region including Coral Bay and Carnarvon. The project will meet growing demand for linen laundering and improve the quality of linens provided to regional accommodation businesses. Requested funds will go towards the cost of property fit out, hydraulic upgrades and project management. | Gascoyne | $150,000 | $0 | No |
| Shire Of Upper Gascoyne | Gascoyne Junction Residential Subdivision – Stage 1 | Subdivision of 10 un-serviced lots (approximately 6.9 acres) within Gascoyne Junction. The aim to create economic opportunities, enabling the construction of new dwellings to support workforce attraction and population retention in Gascoyne Junction. Requested funding to be allocated toward providing underground power and water to lots. | Gascoyne | $100,000 | $0 | No |
| The Trustee for Jamie Morgan Family Trust | Expansion of Shark Bay Marine Repairs and Services to include indoor work spaces and worker accommodation | The project will deliver a purpose-built workshop and retail space, housing vessels under repair and allowing local access to marine supplies. The workshop will provide shelter from extreme weather conditions, improving operating efficiencies. On site accommodation will be renovated for use by the business’s employees, reducing housing pressure that will help attract a new skilled worker to the region. Requested funding to be used toward the cost of worker accommodation, shed and retail space construction an audit. | Gascoyne | $200,000 | $0 | No |
| Valeria Lucchitto | Taste of Italy by Valeria | To construct a purpose-built commercial kitchen in which to expand an existing catering business. The kitchen will be suitably equipped to enable the preparation of foods to meet specialty dietary requirements without cross contamination and have the capacity for processing local mangos for wholesale purposes. Funding to go toward the cost of construction, fit out and new equipment for the kitchen. | Gascoyne | $100,000 | $0 | Yes |
| Australian Potash Limited | Laverton Training Centre (LTC) | The Laverton Training Centre will provide vocational training programs to local and regional people who would otherwise, due to perceived and actual barriers to mainstream training program entry requirements, not qualify for or be inclined to apply for formal training programs. | Goldfields-Esperance | $250,000 | $0 | No |
| Goldfields Machining Pty Ltd | Hydraulic Cylinder Repair Bench | Purchase a Hydraulic Cylinder Repair Bench with stripping/assembly capabilities, to enable pressure testing, digital reporting and laser stroke measurement. The bench will increase the service provision within the Goldfields Region to the mining sector. | Goldfields-Esperance | $75,000 | $0 | No |
| Seas It All Pty Ltd | Access Esperance | The project will renovate Esperance Diving and Fishing to include two accessible holiday apartments and an office, providing additional services and increased accessibility to visitors. The apartments will be fully accessible to enable Esperance to target the lucrative and growing Accessible Tourism market. | Goldfields-Esperance | $200,000 | $0 | No |
| Shire of Dundas | Dundas-Ngadju Timber Utilisation and Diversification | Working with Ngadju (Traditional Owners), the Shire of Dundas seeks to utilise timber that would otherwise be waste from clearing mine sites. Mill timber will become a saleable product, through the Forest Products Commission contract and will supply timber for local production to Ngadju, Men's Shed, industry development initiative. | Goldfields-Esperance | $200,000 | $0 | No |
| Yirri Grove Pty Ltd | Increasing Capacity of award winning Yirri Grove Olive Oil | Yirri Grove produces the finest quality Extra Virgin Olive Oil and also provides a high-quality tourism experience through a farm shop and restaurant that boasts a paddock to plate experience. This project will expand the business operations through increase processing space, an extension of the existing restaurant and addition of new olive trees. | Goldfields-Esperance | $60,000 | $0 | Yes |
| Albany Enterprise Group Inc | Albany Business Centre Re-Development Plan (stage 1) | Re-development of the existing buildings to increase space for start-up businesses, update to current accessibility guidelines, improvement of centre for businesses and community to allow increased workshops and education. | Great Southern | $50,000 | $0 | Yes |
| Aspect Modular Pty Ltd | Relocation of the Aspect Modular Manufacturing Facility to Denmark. | Aspect Modular, established in 2017, is a Perth based builder of bespoke (architecturally designed) modular houses.
RED funding will enable the relocation of Aspect Modular's operations from Jandakot to the Great Southern to a purpose built manufacturing facility to be constructed in the new Denmark Light Industrial Area (LIA). | Great Southern | $190,000 | $0 | No |
| Badgebup Aboriginal Corporation | Mungart Seed Enterprises Nursery | Through the WA Government's Aboriginal Ranger Program, Badgebup Aboriginal Corporation (BAC) has established a multiskilled mobile workforce of 24 Noongar Rangers engaged in land regeneration, bushfoods and cultural tourism.
RED funding be used to purchase a commercial greenhouse to support the establishment of a nursery enterprise to keep BAC's pool of Rangers sustainably employed beyond the current 3-4 month winter planting season. | Great Southern | $62,100 | $0 | Yes |
| Claycore Pty Ltd | Venco Manufacturing Facility | Venco is an internationally renowned manufacturer and exporter of high-quality equipment for ceramics artists and others in the pottery industry. With a history dating back to 1972, Venco wholesales and services a range of electric potters wheels, pugmills, slab rollers, clay extruders and glass grinders.
RED funding will enable the construction of a new manufacturing facility in Albany to enable Venco Products to increase manufacturing capacity and sales of wholesale ceramic equipment into national and international markets. | Great Southern | $190,000 | $0 | Yes |
| South Coast Natural Resource Management Inc | Seeds of the Great Southern: Strategic positioning of Noongar enterprises within the restoration economy | A partnership between South Coast NRM, Gnowangerup Aboriginal Corporation and Tambellup Aboriginal Corporation will build on the skills and knowledge obtained through the RED R2 'Seeding Great Southern Noongar Enterprises' project to underpin the formal creation and advancement of two Noongar enterprises in the region's rapidly expanding restoration economy.
REDs funding will enable the necessary support, infrastructure, governance and training to establish a commercially viable native seed enterprise in Tambellup and a native seedling nursery in Gnowangerup. | Great Southern | $94,000 | $0 | No |
| MGC Building and Maintenance Pty Ltd | Assistance in Purchasing Capital Equipment | The project is to purchase a soil compactor (roller) machine which will give the organisation capacity to undertake work and engage, train and retain employees. The aim of the organisation is to keep their Aboriginal employment rate above 50%. | Kimberley | $85,000 | $0 | No |
| East Kimberley Chamber of Commerce and Industry | Addressing labour shortage issues in the East Kimberley region. | Funding will support the initial year of a five year Designated Area Migration Agreement (DAMA) project that will address significant labour shortages in the East Kimberley and appoint the EKCCI as the Designated Area Representative (DAR). Skilled and semi-skilled workers not available through standard visa processes will be engaged for the region. | Kimberley | $75,000 | $0 | No |
| Marine Biomedical Pty Ltd | To enable a pilot Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) laboratory facility in Broome to manufacture PearlBone. | Purchase, installation and fit-out of a laboratory facility to enable the production of Pearlbone for use in the biomedical industry. | Kimberley | $200,000 | $0 | No |
| Mowanjum Aboriginal Corporation | Expanding Mowanjum’s Pivot Capability to accommodate more Wagyu breeders | The project will expand an existing centre pivot from 40 to 60 hectares doubling the agistment capability from 2,500 to 5,000 Wagyu breeders. | Kimberley | $60,000 | $0 | No |
| Lakeside Minerals Livestock Pty Ltd | Establishment of Lakeside Minerals Livestock - supplements for Kimberley pastoralists. | A processing plant will be established in an existing refurbished shed to supply North West pastoralists with locally produced stock supplements. A locally produced product will assist in reducing product and freight costs. | Kimberley | $150,000 | $0 | Yes |
| Frilled Enterprises Pty Ltd | Traffic Management Certification | The project is to obtain certification for the Traffic Management Company Registration Scheme which will result in training and employment opportunities for local Aboriginal people. | Kimberley | $33,000 | $0 | No |
| Frillnecks Enterprises Pty Ltd | Little Bilbies Expansion Project | The project of expanding an existing day-care facility in Derby includes funding two new buildings, a playground, a play deck with shade sail, security and perimeter fencing and safety features such as internal fencing, safety gates and ramps. | Kimberley | $170,000 | $0 | No |
| Fenix-Newhaul Pty Ltd | World leading simulator technology to enhance the Road Train driver learning experience, providing more robust, safer and quicker training. | Purchase a simulator manufactured by CKAS that works in a similar way to an aircraft simulator. Newhaul's Kick Start Driver Training Academy is being established in Geraldton to address three significant needs - Create jobs in the Mid West region, Create sustainable career pathways for indigenous people in the Mid West region, Assist the State to meet the acute labour shortages facing the mining and resources sector. This centrepiece of the Academy is unlike anything else in Australia and has been designed to include an actual Mack truck cabin, as well as to replicate specific road routes through advanced software and mapping. | Mid West | $250,000 | $0 | No |
| Nufab Industries Pty Ltd | Computer Numeric Control (CNC) High Definition (HD) Plasma Cutting | Purchase Computer Numeric Controlled (CNC) High Definition (HD) Plasma Cutting machine due to an increasing internal business need for precision cutting of high grade thick metal plates to make custom parts that Nufab use in the manufacture of market leading farming machinery. The CNC project will enable Nufab to complete all its machine cutting in-house in Geraldton, as well as provide this service and capability to other local businesses. | Mid West | $146,700 | $0 | Yes |
| Wajarri Yamaji Aboriginal Corporation | Wajarri Cultural Tourism Walga Rock and Wilgie Mia | Commence conducting cultural tours based in Cue and visiting Walga Rock and/or the Wilgie Mia Ochre Mine. Tours will initially be half day to Walga Rock or overnight camping to visit both sites. We have identified a Wajarri member who is currently conducting ad hoc tours with permission from Traditional Owners. This proposal will formalise this arrangement and includes marketing to develop the profile and generate customer interest and numbers. This project is the precursor to a much larger project (see attached Walganah (Walga Rock) and Wilgie Mia Concept Design and Tourism Framework Report). | Mid West | $216,366 | $0 | No |
| New Leaf Connect | New Leaf Connect - Trailer Addition | Purchase a customised trailer and fit it with additional equipment - barbeque, Engel, folding chairs and table - to enhance the customer experience while on tours, custom trips and experiences in the Midwest and to allow additional storage space for private transport jobs. | Mid West | $11,051 | $0 | No |
| Rainstar Holdings Pty Ltd | Wooleen Station Visitors Building | Relocate and refurbish a 1922 Shearer’s Shed Kitchen and transform it into the Wooleen Station Visitors Building to include a merchandise outlet, hospitality service, interpretive space, art gallery and meeting room. | Mid West | $100,000 | $0 | No |
| Hunsa Smallgoods Pty Ltd | Domestic and Export Production Expansion Capacity Upgrade | Install new equipment including a vacuum fill and portion system enabling an increase in manufacturing capacity and triple the speed to manage the expected increase in export business. | Peel | $90,000 | $0 | Yes |
| Eden Towers Pty Ltd | Growing Bush Foods | Establishment of a solar powered vertical farm in the Peel Business Park (a first for Australia) with significant Growing Bush Foods program in addition to other product development / growing opportunities.
The Growing Bush Foods project will explore the over 6,000 different varieties of bush foods and see which of these grow best in a vertical farm environment. Once the right crops are selected, they will be developed into commercial products either through direct sales for edible products, downstream processing for commercial uses, support reforestation or explore other uses. The ultimate goal being the establishment of new/different product segment into a growing bush food market.
To support the vertical farm and Growing Bush Foods project, Eden Towers will construct an onsite laboratory and establish a commercialisation program for the growing of Bush Foods for consumption, development into pharmaceutical or cosmetics and explore other downstream uses. | Peel | $170,000 | $0 | No |
| Caravan King | Workshop Expansion & Job Creation | Design and construct new production facility to service demands within the Peel for caravan and motorhome maintenance, repair and upgrade. | Peel | $160,000 | $0 | Yes |
| Spinifex Brewery | Establish at the WAFIP in the Peel region and expand production capacity through installation of a canning line | Spinifex Brewery Limited will establish a production brewery within the WA Food Innovation Precinct. The purpose of this RED grant application is to seek funds to purchase and install a canning line within the Spinifex production brewery. The canning line is essential equipment to enable Spinifex to package beer for sale into the Australian domestic market and to export the Taste of Australia range. | Peel | $150,000 | $0 | Yes |
| Chaff City | Chaff City Expansion and Automation | Purchase and installation of equipment to semi automate mixing and packaging processes for muesli and grain mixes produced by Chaff City. These improvements will ultimately result in Chaff City being able to expand further into the Australian market and export their products internationally. | Peel | $90,000 | $0 | Yes |
| Smartstream Technology Pty Ltd T/A Smartstream Technology | Procurement, installation and commissioning of a second Rotomoulding machine | Procure, install and operate a second, larger rotomoulding machine to keep up with current and future demand for the innovative in-house scientifically developed sewer/wastewater and stormwater product range for use by the civil and industrial industries. | Peel | $120,000 | $0 | Yes |
| Darryl Corps Family Trust | REDS VR (Regional Earthmoving Digital Simulators – Virtual Reality) | The project aims to deliver three cutting edge virtual reality civil and construction training modules, in a purpose built solar powered facility in Karratha. The project will offer an efficient, safe and environmentally sustainable solution to workforce upskilling, increasing he number of locally based skilled human resources. Karratha Earthmoving intend to expand the VR simulator offering, to create the Civil and Construction Centre of Excellence (CCCoE), the first of its kind in regional Western Australia. Funding will specifically assist in the purchase of the simulator. | Pilbara | $150,000 | $0 | No |
| Jenkinson Wilson Charters Pty Ltd (Kuarlu Marine Charters Onslow WA) | Kuarlu Marine Charters Onslow | The project aims to establish a marine charter operation in Onslow with a key focus on engaging and training local youth. Funding will be used for the purchase of the 65ft vessel which will provide a range of marine tourism experiences, including sightseeing and fishing charters, whale watching tours, Mackerel and Monte Bello Island extended charters, special charters for marine cadets, island beach clean charters, marine environment and safety education, and partnering with other Indigenous organisations for cultural tours. In conjunction with the charter operations, the applicant will run a cadetship program aimed at local Indigenous youth to offer a pathway to marine and related industry career opportunities, while reconnecting them to their culture and tradition of the Thalanyji people, who are the Traditional Owners of the Onslow area. The final component of the project is to use the vessel as a commercial fishing charter during the tourism shoulder and off-season. | Pilbara | $250,000 | $0 | No |
| Town Of Port Hedland | Kingsford Smith Business Park and Airport Precinct Business Fibre Zone Project | The project aims to establish a Business Fibre Zone (BFZ), under a co-investment model with NBN, at Kingsford Smith Business Park and the broader Port Hedland International Airport precinct.
The project will:
• Enhance reliability for bandwidth intensive applications;
• Facilitate scalability to suit business demand;
• Support improved production, collaboration and innovation; and
• achieve greater service equity between BFZ located businesses and the metropolitan centre.
Funding is specifically sought to assist with payment for the Business Fibre Zone. | Pilbara | $97,000 | $0 | No |
| Weerianna Street Media Pty Ltd | Establishment of IndigiFlix – Australia’s first online streaming service for Indigenous films, documentaries, tv series’ and music events | The project aims to create Australia's first all- Indigenous online subscription based streaming service, IndigiFlix. IndigiFlix will host extremely high quality short films, documentaries, television series and music events.
Weerianna Street Media (WSM) is a cross-media company owned and operated by Tyson Mowarin, a Ngarluma man. WSM will approach local, national, international Indigenous artists to broadcast their works on IndigiFlix. The artists will be paid a fee for their works and after two years WSM will invest profits from IndigiFlix into the local Pilbara community through creation and production of additional films and live-streaming events, creating jobs and demand for a range of services and products. Funding is specifically sought to assist in website development, preparation of content, part time editor, 3 year subscription to Uscreen, legal fees, marketing and publicity, equipment and training. | Pilbara | $110,000 | $0 | Yes |
| Woodbines Enterprises Pty Ltd (Tender Relief) | Tender Relief Online | The project aims to build and market an interactive and educational software product and easy to use mobile app to help Pilbara businesses produce quality tender applications. Tender Relief has completed the design and planning work and released a prototype to 42 Pilbara based businesses to test the market, 5 of those businesses signed up for an annual membership with two signing up multiple staff members. The next stage of the project is building the software and functionality, populating the content, marketing and launch. Funding will specifically be used to assist in the development of the app and wages for a data entry and administrator, a junior developer, and a senior technology developer. | Pilbara | $100,000 | $0 | No |
| Hemp Squared Pty Ltd | Hemp Squared Manufacturing Facility Expansion Project | Hemp Squared is a start-up business manufacturing hemp-lime blocks for sustainable housing construction. The production of hemp-lime building blocks creates a market for hemp hurd in Western Australia. Hemp Squared has conducted research and development and product trials at its existing nano-plant manufacturing facility near Bridgetown. The existing facility has reached capacity and this expansion project includes construction of a 375m2 shed, 5 pneumatic block presses and ancillary equipment to facilitate block production. The new facility will increase production capacity to 200,000 hemp-lime blocks per year (enough to construct 100-120 dwellings). Demands is expected to grow to about 1,000,000 blocks by 2027. The project will employ an additional 6 permanent full time staff and 3 part time staff to facilitate increased production. | South West | $100,000 | $0 | Yes |
| Jakim Pty Ltd (Margaret River Free Range Eggs) | Advanced Climatically Controlled Egg Processing Plant | This project responds to the rising consumer demand for free range production and changes to food safety standards Funding will support the construction of an advanced climatically controlled egg processing plant that will :
• improve food safety and quality through automation in a temperature controlled environment
• reduce unit costs through economies of scale
• increase marketing power through economies of scope
• enable egg producers to compete in markets where they previously were impeded through either cost, price, scale or quality
• encourage the expansion of egg production by existing producers
•encourage new producers to enter the industry
•enhance industry sustainability and growth | South West | $150,000 | $0 | No |
| Margaret River Busselton Tourism Association Inc. | Eagles Heritage Capacity & Experience Enhancement Project | The project will focus on increasing capacity and enhancing the visitor experience at Eagles Heritage. Funding will support:
1 An audio-enabled discovery tour of the large bush block precinct that provides engaging interpretation of the birds of prey, the flora as told through the perspective of local Aboriginal customs and traditional uses narrated by Wadandi custodians, and Wadandi Boodja and the connection to and care of country for 60,000+ years.
2. A large built structure that provides an immersive, audio-visual, nocturnal bird of prey experience with 360 degree screens. Visitors enter the facility and in a darkened space experience sounds and glimpses of nocturnal birds of prey in action while learning more about the local nocturnal wildlife of our region. | South West | $100,000 | $0 | Yes |
| RCR Mining Technologies Pty Ltd | Apron Feeder Components Robotic Welder | RCR’s highest selling product is its apron feeder, which RCR design and manufacture in a range of sizes according to customer specifications for the mining sector. As part of the company's maintenance and product support program, RCR also design and manufacture key apron feeder replacement and spare parts such as return rollers, carry roller frames and take-up housing. To meet demand for the large volumes of spare parts manufactured by RCR the company currently uses semi-automated CNC machines to manufacture componentry which is manually welded together to form the part. The ‘Apron Feeder Components Robotic Welder’ Project allows RCR to modernise and automate what is a laborious, repetitive and inefficient process, whilst maximising production output and improving price competitiveness. | South West | $99,181 | $0 | Yes |
| The Trustees for the Nigg Family Trust (Hidden River Estate) | The South West Strawberry Propagation Project | This project is now in its fourth year of operation having completed trials on the propagation of several licenced varieties of strawberry. In 2020 the company produced 95,000 potted plants (known as plugs) which were sold to WA growers. Plants are propagated using an innovative approach to avoid soil borne disease and cultivated in nursery trays to produce established plugs. These plugs outperform imported plugs in productivity and early fruiting. The business has reached production capacity with current infrastructure and is seeking support to expand infrastructure to allow for the production of over 1 million plugs per season. With the new infrastructure the business will upscale production capacity to establish a niche new industry in the South West and provide ongoing and seasonal employment for local workers and contractors. | South West | $100,000 | $0 | Yes |
| Noongar Land Enterprise Group - Boola Boornap | Native Tree Nursery Upgrade and Expansion | The RED funding will enable upgrades to the native tree nursery to increase production to 2 million seedlings per annum and gain accreditation to allow direct sales to the public.
The funding will go towards water catchment and storage, office repairs and upgrades, shed repairs and upgrades and improving the growing area by undertaking repairs and expansion to accommodate the increased capacity target. | Wheatbelt | $100,000 | $0 | Yes |
| Shire of Bruce Rock | Bruce Rock Supermarket | The Shire of Bruce Rock supermarket burnt down in March 2021. The Shire has purchased the old supermarket site with the intention of constructing and fitting out a new building to be leased to a suitable independent retailer.
The RED funding will contribute to the construction and fit out works, with funds to be put towards the construction of the supermarket superstructure. | Wheatbelt | $105,000 | $0 | No |
| Whinbin Rock Farms | Armstrong Malt - Artisan Malthouse Establishment | Whinbin Rock Farms is located in the Shire of Narrogin and is establishing an artisan malthouse using 100% local West Australian grains. The Malthouse will focus on speciality malts, special releases and custom options crafted from a variety of local grains and tailored towards supplying speciality and niche markets of the West Australian beer and spirit industry. The drum malting system, believed to be the first of its kind in Australia, will enable specialty, custom malts to be produced. Whinbin Rock Farms intends to expand into low gluten and gluten-free malts.
The RED funding will contribute to the construction of a shed on Whinbin Rock Farms’ property to house the malting equipment and infrastructure. | Wheatbelt | $190,000 | $0 | No |
| Augment Agriculture | Living Farm Expansion and New Integrated Facility | The RED funding will contribute to the construction of a integrated facility combining offices, equipment sheds, mechanical workshops and storage. The facility will become the head office and operations centre for Living Farm, allowing it to remain in the region, expand and provide significant economic benefits to the Wheatbelt. | Wheatbelt | $200,000 | $0 | No |
| Evoke Living Homes | ELH Manufacturing Facility | The RED funding will contribute to the construction of a purpose-built undercover facility of 2,000m2 to allow the manufacture of homes in all weather conditions. This new facility will enable a significant reduction in production delays and double production capacity. By increasing turnover, additional full-time employees and apprentices can be taken on, giving Evoke Living Homes surety of labour and ability to scale by entering into new markets. | Wheatbelt | $200,000 | $0 | No |